The Guardian of Liberty - Nemzetőr, 1986 (9. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1986-01-01 / 1. szám

BI-MONTH L Y B 20435 l* THE GUARDIAN OF LIBERTY (NEMZETŐR) Vol. *| XXX JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 1986 "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" Article 18 Universal Declaration of Human Rights Afghan Secret Police Upgraded A fghanistan's Soviet-controlled regime has given an even higher status to its secret police, the KHAD. It has converted its supervis­ing body, the General Department, into a govern­ment ministry. The official media in Kabul announced this up­grading when reporting the holding of a “glorious meeting“ on January 11 marking the sixth anni­versary of the formation of the KHAD — an event which occured only a fortnight after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on December 27, 1979. The establishment of the new Ministry of State Security was authorised in a decree signed by President Babrak Karmai, the Afghan puppet leader whom the invaders placed in office, he having previously lived in exile in the USSR and Eastern Europe. At the “glorious meeting“ Major-General Gholam Farug Yaqubi, head of the KHAD, spoke about “the struggle against the enemies of the revolution“. He said that the personnel of the Ministry of State Security would “channel all their ability, energy, logic and reason into realising the demands and needs of the party and government.. . “ According to refugee reports, the KHAD is closely supervised at all levels of its organisation by a large number of Soviet and East German “advisers“. Even provincial headquarters of the KHAD and its various specialist units (concerned, for example, with the surveillance of universities and schools) are controlled by Russians in all but name. Many people suspected of aiding the Afghan Muslim guerrillas are interrogated in the basement of the KHAD headquarters in Kabul or in similar centres in the provinces. Interrogations are usually supervised by Soviet officers, occasionally with assistance from members of Tudeh, the banned Iranian Communist Party. Torture is often used. Detained persons may be released only with the permission of the Russians. According to a recent refugee report, the KHAD overseen by KGB “advisers“, has executed 80 guerrillas in Herat prison since March, 1985. This information came from a guerrilla leader who escaped from the jail. Exhausted personnel of the KHAD — their odious work is often tiring — have the use of a rest centre in Jalalabad city. Appropriately call­ed the "Afghan-Soviet Friendship Club”, it has i 60 beds and various recreational facilities, together with 20 beds in its medical wing. In November, 1982, the KHAD was praised at a conference in Kabul of the World Peace Council, the most important of several Soviet­­controlled international organisations which claim to be independent of any government. The official Kabul media quoted a conference speech by Dr. Najibollah, a member of the Polit­buro of the Afghan Marxist party, the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA). Najibollah, then head of the KHAD and now Secretary of the PDPA Central Committee, said: “The KHAD, as the PDPA’s cutting sword and, at the same time, the instrument of justice and reason and the servant of the people, has not only expanded its organisation in the capital and in Kabul province, but. . . has also created its or­­(Continued on page 2) Afghan Muslim guerrillas, the intrepid mujahidins, are now better equipped causing more and more losses to the invading Soviet and government troops. IN THIS ISSUE Peace Schoolgirls in Mental Hospitals 2 MIG-21 Shot down in latest Incursion 2 Church-State Relations Deteriorate 4 New Era for Church in Cuba? 5 How Communists Cheer and Boo-14 3 Ceausescu Tyranny: "Happy Returns" 6-7 Vietnam: Chemical Warfare Trained 8 Rival Marxist Groups in S. Yemen 9 Eastern Europe 40 years ago (VIII) 10 Plot to Murder Exiled Leader 11 "Fishing" on Thin Ice 12 W.V. tc.'li ..ttUfr-xÆ SABOTEURS POSED AS REFUGEES Two KHAD egents, posing as Afghan re­fugees, were arrested recently in the Khyber division of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. Teapots in their luggage were found to contain 16 kilos of explosives, enough to make 40 bombs. They told police that they had been sent on a sabotage mission from Jalalabad, being pro­mised 10,000 afghanis (about 1980 dollars) for each explosion they detonated in Pakistan.

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